I'm excited because I only have a couple things to do before this weekend, and then a bunch of my friends come up from Texas, and the day they leave, Cindy comes into town for an evening! Yeehaw! Then I've got a day to pack before I'm off to the great white North for a week or so. I'm excited to see my family of course, but as of yesterday I found out my mom and brother are both really sick with the flu so...now I'm worried about them but also that I might catch it! I jokingly told my mom that if they're still sick by next week I ain't comin'. :)
My PC seems to be doing much better now. Looking back, I'm humiliated by how crazy I got over that whole thing. Even if it had totally crashed and I had lost ALL my songs and ALL my writings, life would have continued. I need to grow up. Sometimes I am such a suburban brat. I did go to Confession but I can still be embarrassed. I had just had to confess a couple weeks ago that I'd become a pain to be around. Then last week I had to recover the same ground only I must have hit it home this time because Father actually seemed to buy it! ha ha! Usually he's so nice, you know, "No, no, don't be too hard on yourself" THAT whole vibe--but this time he didn't argue with me much. :) I really HAD been a pain!
Somehow I made myself docile as a lamb again. I even sat tamely by last night as one of my friends went on and on about how stupid everything was, latently implying that I too was part of the stupidity. I bit my tongue about a thousand times but the key is...I bit my tongue, not his head off. I mean, he even went so far as to declare that the Loch Ness Monster was only a fat drunken Scotsman bathing in the loch! *gasp!* I think I did challenge him somewhere along those lines though--them's figtin' words!
But honestly, it is amazing how many people will believe random stuff they find on the internet over tried and true testimonies ranging from every learned civilization over the centuries, then call the religious people nuts and themselves "reasonable!" You have to admit that's funny. "Forget what Plato, Socrates, Augustine, and Aquinas all said! Bill Maher said religions are silly!"
No, no, I'm not equating Nessie to God in any way! heehee But there was a link there in the conversation somewhere: something about how dumb people believe in things there is no scientific proof for. I always smile because a few thousand years ago, and for a LONG TIME afterwards, it was "scientifically proven" by Aristotle that frogs came from mud and maggots came from meat. :)
Anyway, I have my own "proof" for Nessie. Cindy remembers well our trip to the loch: Nessie partied with us, embarassed us by getting drunk and dancing with the locals, so we left in a huff. But we brought home pictures so everyone can see and know that Nessie is a fact and we met her!